Re: Bug#900421: improve "wiki account creation delayed" message
On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 20:28:41 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 17:56:34 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:22:41PM -0800, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote:
> > >Hi folks,
> > >
> > >I would add to the issue the portion of the message that says "from some
> > >people". When we got that yesterday creating Josh's account (Josh in
> > >CC), we found it a bit weird (why from me? what is wrong about me?).
> > >
> > >So I suggest your clearly state that the anti-spam has blocked the
> > >account creation, so it clearly shows it is not personal, just computer
> > >rules (spammy heuristics as described by pabs on IRC).
> > >
> > >Thanks for taking care of it!
> >
> > Updated to say
> >
> > "Automatic account creation disabled to stop spammers signing
> > up. Please contact $admin_private and describe what you want to do in
> > the wiki."
> >
> > How does that sound?
>
> If I saw "$admin_private" in an email, I wouldn't have a clue what it
> meant.
Ok. Got the idea. Make it impersonal.
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Brian.
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